clementine 🍊
@clementinereads.bsky.social
reader, knitter, media scholar • she/her • hamilton, ON
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For @teenvogue.com, I wrote about RFK's desire to send people to 'wellness farms'--and how the US has already tried that.
A big thank you to @allegrak.bsky.social for believing in this piece!
A big thank you to @allegrak.bsky.social for believing in this piece!
RFK Wants to Send People to ‘Wellness Farms.’ The US Already Tried That.
RFK said Americans “addicted” to opioids, antidepressants, and stimulants should be sent to “wellness farms."
www.teenvogue.com
April 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM
For @teenvogue.com, I wrote about RFK's desire to send people to 'wellness farms'--and how the US has already tried that.
A big thank you to @allegrak.bsky.social for believing in this piece!
A big thank you to @allegrak.bsky.social for believing in this piece!
Sunday knitting & podcast combo 🧶 🎧
March 30, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Sunday knitting & podcast combo 🧶 🎧
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March 27, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I'm so brave publishing grades on a Friday and logging out knowing students will be emailing me all weekend!!!!
March 28, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I'm so brave publishing grades on a Friday and logging out knowing students will be emailing me all weekend!!!!
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americans what the fuck did you do to the bloc quebecois
March 27, 2025 at 1:23 AM
americans what the fuck did you do to the bloc quebecois
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if you lose an argument to a chatbot you should have to pass an independent turing test before you're allowed to rejoin society
March 27, 2025 at 12:38 PM
if you lose an argument to a chatbot you should have to pass an independent turing test before you're allowed to rejoin society
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Not to be a wide-eyed naïf about such things but... am I right in thinking that they levelled an entire building to get to one guy and *that* is not controversial to anyone in the American media or political class, only that this information was recklessly shared in an unsecured chat?
March 26, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Not to be a wide-eyed naïf about such things but... am I right in thinking that they levelled an entire building to get to one guy and *that* is not controversial to anyone in the American media or political class, only that this information was recklessly shared in an unsecured chat?
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March 26, 2025 at 1:02 PM
🏳️⚧️✨THE AUCTION IS LIVE
I repeat
THE AUCTION IS LIVE ✨🏳️⚧️
240+ amazing items from some incredible authors in crime writing and beyond!
Help support the #TransLawCenter today!
❤️🔥 Auction runs til Tuesday April 1 ❤️🔥
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I repeat
THE AUCTION IS LIVE ✨🏳️⚧️
240+ amazing items from some incredible authors in crime writing and beyond!
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again, compare jurors and grand jurors, every day people, who stood up to death threats and were not cowed in the least, with prosecutors, many judges, and politicians, who mostly dilly dallied and hoped trump would go away on his own or folded entirely.
how cowardly our *elites* have become. it's very, very depressing how few people have left biglaw in a blaze of glory like Rachel Cohen post-Paul Weiss.
March 26, 2025 at 4:19 PM
again, compare jurors and grand jurors, every day people, who stood up to death threats and were not cowed in the least, with prosecutors, many judges, and politicians, who mostly dilly dallied and hoped trump would go away on his own or folded entirely.
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WOW.
Dans le Miramichi Reader, recension par Clementine Oberst de Baldwin, Styron and Me (@biblioasis.bsky.social, trad. Catherine Khordoc).
"By knitting together this literary history with her own personal experiences, Abdelmoumen has created something new and vital."
Ces mots me bouleversent.
Dans le Miramichi Reader, recension par Clementine Oberst de Baldwin, Styron and Me (@biblioasis.bsky.social, trad. Catherine Khordoc).
"By knitting together this literary history with her own personal experiences, Abdelmoumen has created something new and vital."
Ces mots me bouleversent.
Baldwin, Styron, and Me by Mélikah Abdelmoumen, translated by Catherine Khordoc
This expansive, evocative, and insightful book is part memoir, part imaginative reconstruction of history.
miramichireader.ca
March 21, 2025 at 1:38 PM
WOW.
Dans le Miramichi Reader, recension par Clementine Oberst de Baldwin, Styron and Me (@biblioasis.bsky.social, trad. Catherine Khordoc).
"By knitting together this literary history with her own personal experiences, Abdelmoumen has created something new and vital."
Ces mots me bouleversent.
Dans le Miramichi Reader, recension par Clementine Oberst de Baldwin, Styron and Me (@biblioasis.bsky.social, trad. Catherine Khordoc).
"By knitting together this literary history with her own personal experiences, Abdelmoumen has created something new and vital."
Ces mots me bouleversent.
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It’s truly plain as day.
The massive investment in AI (something most consumers do not want and will not pay for) only makes sense when you see it as a way to undercut tech workers’ market power
Anyway, they’re all playing in your face about AI. As soon as it deprofessionalizes everybody that the market hates because their credentials give them wage power, you’ll be able to buy a LLM tamagotchi at the Family Dollar and we will all vaguely remember when these toys were a fix for everything
March 24, 2025 at 4:27 PM
It’s truly plain as day.
How great is it that I got to destroy a forest in order to get this INCORRECT AI-powered answer??? (Netflix has 26 Oscars.)
March 24, 2025 at 5:28 PM
How great is it that I got to destroy a forest in order to get this INCORRECT AI-powered answer??? (Netflix has 26 Oscars.)
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Canada needs: strict regulations on housing, food supply, energy, environment. We need a national housing and alternate energy plan. We need massive capital transportation projects. We need broad national dental, pharma, and child-care, no opts-outs allowed. We need a strong social safety net.
March 23, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Canada needs: strict regulations on housing, food supply, energy, environment. We need a national housing and alternate energy plan. We need massive capital transportation projects. We need broad national dental, pharma, and child-care, no opts-outs allowed. We need a strong social safety net.
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Pink Spring Sky
Robert Newton Hurley
1972
Robert Newton Hurley
1972
March 24, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Pink Spring Sky
Robert Newton Hurley
1972
Robert Newton Hurley
1972
I learned this semi-recently and it truly helped ease my post-rain anxiety about accidentally stepping on worms. 😢
EARTHWORMS ARE INVASIVE SPECIES IN CANADA!
What’s something that’s a banal observation in your field, but which really blows students’ minds the 1st time they encounter it?
I’ll go 1st—when we talk about how technological history gets narrated & I say "no human being has ever lived in a historical period—they’ve only lived in the present"
I’ll go 1st—when we talk about how technological history gets narrated & I say "no human being has ever lived in a historical period—they’ve only lived in the present"
March 20, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I learned this semi-recently and it truly helped ease my post-rain anxiety about accidentally stepping on worms. 😢
I read a lot. Part of the appeal is that the act of reading connects me - across space and time - with another human being who created something with intentionality. I don't want to read things written by computers. It defeats the purpose entirely.
March 20, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I read a lot. Part of the appeal is that the act of reading connects me - across space and time - with another human being who created something with intentionality. I don't want to read things written by computers. It defeats the purpose entirely.
Grading short quizzes when you're used to grading 2000+ word essays is such a breath of fresh air. I don't even like quizzes, but this is undeniably a benefit...
February 26, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Grading short quizzes when you're used to grading 2000+ word essays is such a breath of fresh air. I don't even like quizzes, but this is undeniably a benefit...
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Books designed to be read only by human eyes are different from books designed to be read by machines, which is why Google will tell you that the phrase “shake my booty” can be found in an 1863 English translation of Don Quixote.
March 24, 2024 at 9:27 PM
Books designed to be read only by human eyes are different from books designed to be read by machines, which is why Google will tell you that the phrase “shake my booty” can be found in an 1863 English translation of Don Quixote.
I’ve been thinking for a while that it’s becoming politically untenable for many “international” academic associations to be US-based. Here is yet another reason why - many people literally cannot travel to the US for conferences, which we are supposed to do for our careers.
THEY'RE GOING TO ISSUE PERMANENT VISA BANS TO TRANS VISITORS TO THE US.
This isn't just for athletes. The directive as stated applies to all visa applications made by trans folks and declare it material fraud to use a different gender marker on applications.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
This isn't just for athletes. The directive as stated applies to all visa applications made by trans folks and declare it material fraud to use a different gender marker on applications.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US threatens permanent visa bans on trans athletes based on sex markers
Exclusive: State department memo directs officers to bar those deemed to misrepresent birth sex on applications
www.theguardian.com
February 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
I’ve been thinking for a while that it’s becoming politically untenable for many “international” academic associations to be US-based. Here is yet another reason why - many people literally cannot travel to the US for conferences, which we are supposed to do for our careers.
me needing to fly out of Pearson in 2 months for a conference 😭😭😭
everyone get woke again before i have to fly on a plane in 3 weeks please
February 18, 2025 at 1:25 PM
me needing to fly out of Pearson in 2 months for a conference 😭😭😭
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It is shameful that RAINN, representing sexually abused people, erased trans people because they are scared of Trump.
To any org censoring themselves: you cannot jettison trans to save yourself. Yes, if you don't, other groups may suffer, and you might too.
But we are all in this together.
To any org censoring themselves: you cannot jettison trans to save yourself. Yes, if you don't, other groups may suffer, and you might too.
But we are all in this together.
February 18, 2025 at 5:33 AM
It is shameful that RAINN, representing sexually abused people, erased trans people because they are scared of Trump.
To any org censoring themselves: you cannot jettison trans to save yourself. Yes, if you don't, other groups may suffer, and you might too.
But we are all in this together.
To any org censoring themselves: you cannot jettison trans to save yourself. Yes, if you don't, other groups may suffer, and you might too.
But we are all in this together.
On Valentine’s Day, I successfully defended my PhD in conversation with my incredible committee, surrounded by friends, family, and colleagues. Overwhelmed is an understatement!
February 17, 2025 at 2:16 PM
On Valentine’s Day, I successfully defended my PhD in conversation with my incredible committee, surrounded by friends, family, and colleagues. Overwhelmed is an understatement!
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Today, we at Google have a new product: what if you could could ask an app a question? Oh, we do that already? Well, what if we were a little bit worse at it? What if we also sometimes gave you egregiously wrong information? And what if it cost a billion dollars? Still not interested? It's mandatory
February 10, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Today, we at Google have a new product: what if you could could ask an app a question? Oh, we do that already? Well, what if we were a little bit worse at it? What if we also sometimes gave you egregiously wrong information? And what if it cost a billion dollars? Still not interested? It's mandatory
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Doug Ford's goofy hat gimmick was cringe, but cute in its own way. Forget it. Focus on the man and his record. And then vote for somebody else.
thewalrus.ca/doug-ford-tr...
thewalrus.ca/doug-ford-tr...
The Hat Was Cute. Doug Ford’s Record Isn’t | The Walrus
The province he promises to rescue from a trade war is the same one he’s driving into the ground
thewalrus.ca
February 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Doug Ford's goofy hat gimmick was cringe, but cute in its own way. Forget it. Focus on the man and his record. And then vote for somebody else.
thewalrus.ca/doug-ford-tr...
thewalrus.ca/doug-ford-tr...